New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-16
LITERARY. NOTES.

II IL hardly worth wniIe 10 c""pa
Epicurean" and Rider Hsgsards ehe' Po'
~, ~. frat suceested the last, but tho story OF
&ho Memphian p:iestess, AAe'nc' n"e A'''' 80
With that OF Aycsha-
tn. . title Shakes pcarean' IL popular just now
Tokuor is bringing out novel called 1.-TWO Gen''e-
men of Boston," and Caswell announces the early ap
,..rsnce Of another named Two Gentlemen OF
Goiham." New-York's characterisucs anu cccep'''s
tics are skeicbed in the latter.
An.w edition In ak volumes of Brownings poems Is
canning from the Riverside PRESS 1t will have all the
latest additions and revsions. and in these DAYS OF
arou uitp clnbs is timely publication. This lad
for Brow ming is one OF the most conlcai PHASES "a
modern American lie most deeply comicai when
pretty little woman without any clear icea as 70 sno
meaning of sorlello" attempts to explain that "olA
70 equally hazy aud enthusiastic friends.
p.. Charles Mackay in his recently pub'ished
y Autobiography" says: /" In looking back "pou ~
literary work am painfully conscious thS' my "0-e'
s III Int slight or no recognition The BALLADS OF
There's a good time con ing and Cbeer uol
thrown off at heat IN an hou. or he the conscien
s,"vs Lahore of wears have been welcomed only nv !ne
cbo.cc few whose numbers migh ce coun'eu ny nc
scorc" There is nothing new IN this c9mpi"ih' Us
often maze ny n'n u '"' WV
genius. -
The volume "Thackeray as an Artist whcH VIM
shorty be brought ont here will contain the noves
own ideal of Charles Yellowpush, drawn IN pen ana
ins.
Mr.. Robert Buchanan still grimaccs at Matthew
Arnold at Mr.. Cane" he says. finds poetry IN inc
.strayed Reveler or East and West i find there
onlv simple prose. Mr.. Arnold seems to me like man
who had never been child an was, therefore, 4W'e
ipcapable of understanding religion oni renSioh
forms at least two thirds OF poetry as conceive IL
The late Mrs. Horace Mann's story of West Indian
life most of VIII ch written many years ago. IS al
Last TO be published by the d. Lohrop Company. Its
Az ,.pir.a al nb
tiers most important incidents were fe pn1 h sue
did not wish to Introduce 1t to the world uhti 'nse
characters had passed away lie story mas ~
for its theme and Is entitIed ouah''"' ~ "
Real Life IN Cuba"
If the 1925 main words in the thiid instalment OF
DIR. James Murrays great English dctioi arv, $500
arc in current use, 1,379 are Obsolete and I4Z are
words foreign or impertectly naturalized In English
The persistent Mr. Donnelly still tolls at his Shake
spearc Bacon cipher, and proposes to bring his pook
out In July-a deadly season Tor books. Inc wor".
saws Mr. Donnely will never cease to be astonished
not at NY book, but at the marvellous revelations
will contain
Colonel De Lancey Floy-Joness journal OF his re-
cent trim through India China and Japan will soon be
issued by the Public Service Publishing Co., under the
title OF Letters from the Far East"
NJ Tame has completed, won the heart OF England
but in the process he has dissusted his eounrymen.
A Paris journalist, as,olnded at The Pail Mall
Gazette 8" idea OF pttng forty literary Engishmen
against the forty ImmOrals OF the French Academy,
went to NJ. Taine-as the eh'ef trench an,nof'y 2n
English literature-to get the list cond mned lie
was disappointed. IL will not say, sald NJ lame,
tha, the fist forms the elite OF English literature but
taken altosetner ne lo a arI MOI Sufficient reason
The English and all who speak English know them
WE'LL but the other hand Nnow little OF our men OF
letters must say however, that the English oecupy
themselves more with foreign literature than We GO
There is not an educated man who has not read at
least one work OF our Academicians We are lar 100
indifferent everything that does not relate TO our
selves and have lar t. o great belief that we are
the frat litterateurs in tie world: ." see, inter
rupted the journalist, "opposie tmil9 Auecr' the
maine of John Eushin; where are bis 'LionDes
pauyresi" NJ. Tsine's smile at this question showed
tho journalist that had merely gi another proof
OF his ignorance. L" Ruskn IS not dranatist sad
NJ Tame "he is an aesthetician, and we nave no'.
ever had, the like OF him. Your bundeI DOES not
surprise me- You are like ali Frenchaen. You know
only two OF three foreign namesthe names only, not
the works -Sou know nothing OF the foreigner Here
iSr d BERNARD the geat @
greater than any OF ours; And Tennyson I An You
Know him the name, aud Sw'nburne the lyric poet
Even hugoi" "Yes even Hugo. The tact 49, CON
tinued NJ. Taine, that English literature in its
ensemble is much superior 10 ouIs especially IN
poetry. Our hteI allure comes in The second line
put the Germaa the same footing as the English
Doubtless We superior in one branch OF letters
light and frivolous literature. There we are the
masters but that is not the kind that will ever give US
the superiority. And in otter branches-ln poetry,
hosiery, philosophy, bcleuco-We are
volume containing translatons of several short
stories by Count Toltoi entitled The Death OF
Ivan Iyitch" will be published Immediately by I.
Crowell The same publisher will bring out +. de
Amicis's Cuore, an Italian SchoUlboy's journal"
Professor H.nry Morleys task OF twenty years ap
proaches completion. Casse is about to bring out
his History OF English Literature part of which
has already been by the public in preliminary
volumes. His original plan has been re-cast and Ini-
proved in many WAYS
Mr. Lowell the other evening in his opening lecture
of his course on the Early English Dramatists" said
that Genius makes its opportunity but the circum-
stances must be there out which the opportunity
can be made In England there was a national con-
scousuess made aware OF itself aud made cum la
lively operative by the existence and by the accessible
jty oil national capital TO serve it both b. ad and
heart. The want of such q focus OF In electdai,
political and material activity has had more to 10 Wih
sture than has been ordinarily taken into account.
My friend Mr.. Hosea Bigelow. yentured to ahrm some
years ago that had at last arrived at this con-
Scousness through the confusion OF civil war; but
make bold doubt whether that consciousness Will
ever be than ftfu and imperfect whether It Will
ever Except 10 supreme crisis pour itelf out
and reinforce the Individual consciousness in a way
to MAKE our literature feel itself it's own master until
We also shall have common bead as well as com
mon body 1t is not the size OF the city that gives It
this inspiring and expanding quality but tn. tact that
sums up IN itself and gaGpI ,b an 'De at
gave Boston its admitted literary supremacy was the
3act that fifty years ago 1t was more truly capital
than any other American city. And yet. how narrow
Imagination London was such a centre in the days
OF Queen Elizabeth"
An American book which would hardly expect
to find reprinted in England is the Poems" OF George
D. Prentice. A collection edited with biographical
sketch by j. j. Piatt is announced by Eliot Stock-the
London Publisher who has just exchanged shots with
M. Besant, TO the formers discontinue
Mr. W. g. Gilbert has found the long desired rhyme
for silver" in chilver,D word in at British
sales Of farm stock to denote species of sheep He
does reveal the rhyme which be has discovered for
amonth," but says 1t is not Tbackcray's "onety-
opth" aWben l the subject OF rhymes" he
edds al should ike to suggest that inventor who
Il an nj a name for his inye would confer a